Pauline Hanson

2022 - 9 - 28

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Pauline Hanson branded 'absolute scumbag' during heated ... (The Guardian)

Greens motion to censure One Nation senator for 'racist statement' was amended to call for respectful debate.

Birmingham’s speech asked senators to “stay out of the gutter, rise above the Twitterverse. She also said censure should not be the default response to such comments, even as she criticised Hanson herself. “I will not retract what I’ve told senator Faruqi or any other Australian who’s come here for a new way of life, [who] disrespect what’s Australian to me. Instead it asked senators “to engage in debates and commentary respectfully, and to refrain from inflammatory and divisive comments, both inside and outside the chamber at all times”. It’s clear you’re not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan.” Hanson quote-tweeted that post to her own followers, replying: “Your attitude appalls and disgusts me.

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'I'll take her to the airport': Pauline Hanson refuses to back down ... (SBS)

Pauline Hanson has been criticised by Labor and the Greens for making "appalling" remarks on social media against a Greens senator.

I have the right to talk about this history without being racially vilified." I make the offer as well, to take her to the airport.” The motion passed after being amended by the government and Opposition. The amended motion condemned racism "in all its forms" and "called on all senators to engage in debates and commentary respectfully". go where I have said. The Greens sought to censure Senator Hanson over "her divisive, anti-migrant and racist statement" in the Senate on Tuesday.

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'I'm the Senate leader, I still get triggered': Penny Wong denounces ... (Women's Agenda)

Senator Wong delivered a speech in support of Greens Senator Mehreen Farqui, who had moved a censure motion against Hanson.

While I bore the brunt of it, my family and staff were also subjected to unacceptable vitriol,” she said. It never gets easier to deal with racist attacks. “I condemn Senator Hanson’s comments without reservation.

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Pauline Hanson Referred to the Human Rights Commission After ... (Free)

In a tweet, Hanson told another senator to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

Faruqi said the amendment let Hanson off “scot-free”, and will only give her the chance to do it again. “Criticism is not racism,” said Hanson, for the umpteenth time in her political career. Faruqi said the censure was the “bare minimum” that could be done. [2019 segment](https://au.news.yahoo.com/pauline-hanson-confrontation-with-indigenous-girls-uluru-rock-climb-closure-nt-141411729.html), one First Nations person said climbing Uluru was disrespectful. Over the decades since, Hanson has been immovable. The tweet was signed off “-PH”, signalling that Hanson had personally written and posted the remarks from her official account.

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Pauline Hanson referred to human rights body after she doubles ... (The New Daily)

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will be referred to the Australian Human Rights Commission by NSW Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi after she doubled down on.

[dumped as a contributor](https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2022/07/27/hanson-snubs-indigenous-acknowledgement/) to Channel Nine’s Today program in 2020 for [her umpteenth racist remark in her time in public life. The government’s leader in the Senate, Malaysian-born Penny Wong, told the upper house the remarks were “appalling” and she had herself been subject to similar vitriol. “I make the offer also to take her to the airport.” “It is insulting and it is humiliating.” The upper house on Tuesday considered a motion that would have censured Senator Hanson for the “divisive, anti-migrant and racist statement” directed at Senator Faruqi after she criticised the British monarchy. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will be referred to the Australian Human Rights Commission by NSW Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi after she doubled down on her abuse of the senator by telling her to “p— off back to Pakistan”.

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'I'm the Senate leader, I still get triggered': Wong slams Hanson over ... (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The foreign affairs minister backed Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi's censure motion against Pauline Hanson, saying: “It's triggering each time you hear it.”

it is a symbolic but important step that everyone in this place can take to make clear that we condemn racism in all its forms, shapes and sizes.” [Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter here](/link/follow-20170101-p5apym). How long?”

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Hanson fires off in shocking Senate clash (NEWS.com.au)

Pauline Hanson has declared she is “not a racist” after leaving the Senate chamber aghast by offering to drive a Pakistani-born Greens Senator Mehreen ...

It was a racist slur against me,” she said. Her tweet triggered an avalanche, days of abusive calls, emails, tweets and comments directed at me, saying things like ‘people will piss on your grave’, ‘I will cheer when you die’, ‘your lot are good for target practice’ and ‘what a dirty vulgar creature you are’. And it is humiliating.” “Like many migrants and people of colour in this country. “When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. It is insulting. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. She can do and go where I’ve what I’ve said. Pauline Hanson has declared she is “not a racist” after offering a Greens senator a ride “to the airport” to go back where she came from. Pauline Hanson has declared she is “not a racist” after leaving the Senate chamber aghast by offering to drive a Pakistani-born Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi ”to the airport” to go back where she came from. Senator Hanson said she was “fed up” with people who use their skin colour to ”play the victim”. Senator Hanson was filmed smiling throughout the criticism, before she rose to suggest the motion to condemn her was “hypocrisy” and an “idiotic stunt”.

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Pauline Hanson Referred to the Human Rights Commission After ... (VICE)

In a tweet, Hanson told another senator to “piss off back to Pakistan”.

Faruqi said the amendment let Hanson off “scot-free”, and will only give her the chance to do it again. “Criticism is not racism,” said Hanson, for the umpteenth time in her political career. Faruqi said the censure was the “bare minimum” that could be done. [2019 segment](https://au.news.yahoo.com/pauline-hanson-confrontation-with-indigenous-girls-uluru-rock-climb-closure-nt-141411729.html), one First Nations person said climbing Uluru was disrespectful. Over the decades since, Hanson has been immovable. The tweet was signed off “-PH”, signalling that Hanson had personally written and posted the remarks from her official account.

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'Appalling' Pauline Hanson Tweet Referred To Human Rights ... (10 News First)

A tweet from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has been referred to the Australian Human Rights Commission by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.

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Pauline Hanson Has Attacked Mehreen Faruqi With More Racist ... (Junkee)

Pauline Hanson has attacked Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi after nearly being censured in parliament for a racist tirade following the Queen's death.

Seeking to resolve the issue, the Greens moved to officially censure Hanson’s comments in parliament on Tuesday. “Unfortunately it’s all too common that any contribution I make on important public debates … Politicians seated in parliament erupted in outrage after the One Nation Senator then offered to “drive [Faruqi] to the airport”, prompting Greens Senator Jordon Steele-John to call Hanson an “absolute scumbag” from across the floor.

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